Late Telegraphic.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 995, 27 March 1891, Page 19

Late Telegraphic.

(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Dunedin, March 25. The Acclimatisation Society to-day received a donation of £SO from Mr Blackwood, of Melbourne. Mr Thomas Oossen, of Cossens and Black, engineers, died to-day. The Frankton Beach dredge obtained 51oz of retorted gold in nine days. In the Supreme Court, Mr Wilkinson, a solicitor, seeks to recover the sum of £lO9 12s from the Kaikorai Sohool Committee, for costs in connection with an enquiry before a Royal Commission and the Supreme Court. The questions raised involve the right of School Committoes to initiate litigation. The temperance party to-night decided that the platform of the moderate party would not suit, and it was decided to nominate Messrs A. C. Beag, A. Barr, A. C. Broad, J. Wright, and the Rev. W. Ready as prohibition candidates of the coming Licensing election. It was decided to issue circulars requesting supporters of the temperance cause to intimate to such grocers as held bottle licenses that they could not support them so long as they held these. Christchurch, March 25. Last night a cash box, containing £3O, was missed from the Junction Hotel, Halswell. Early this morning Detective O’Connor arrested a respectably-connected young man named William Marshall MoDowall, and part of the money was found in his possession. The cash box, with the remainder, was discovered buried in his garden. He was remanded. The Springfield Company have secured the contract for the supply of fire bricks for the restoration of the Cathedral spire. It is expected the whole work will be completed in five months. The contract for the first 100 feet of the pier at New Brighton was signed to day, the price being £420. The remaining 300 feet iB to be contracted for as the calls made on the shareholders come in. Napier, March 25. The Admiralty Court finished taking evidence in the RaDgitikei salvage case this evening, but the Chief Justice reserved his decision until after hearing the legal arguments in Wellington. Auckland, March 25. News has been received of a violent assault and robbery in Wairoa South district. The victim is a feeble old man of 76, a farmer, named William Bitcb. He was enticed at night out of his a lonely place about a mile from any other dwelling, and was beaten and his watch and chain stolen. A young man named Thomas Fry, a labourer, has been arrested on suspioion of having committed the offence. A visitor to Rotorua offered to pay Te Kooti £SOO if he will go on a twelve months’ trip for exhibition in the Australian colonies. He will also insure the Native’s life for £3OOO. Te Kooti promised to consider the matter. A young man named John Milne, who was charged recently at the Supreme Court with having attempted suicide, anil was since in Hospital, has disappeared from that institution and cannot be found. Lieut.-Colonel Shepherd gave a brief farewell address to the Volunteers at the Drillshed. He urged them to enter into volunteering with a proper spirit, and said that though he might not meet them again on parade he would always take a great interest in volunteering. Grkymouth, March 24.

A special train ran through to Totara Flat to meet the Hon. R. Seddon. It called at all stations on the way, and a considerable number wait by it. Mr Seddon received several deputations from local bodies in the town. He was banquetted to-night, the hall being full, and the gallery full of ladies. His reception was the most enthusiastic. He was very pronounced regarding the abolition of the property tax, and the substitution of a graduated land tax, allowing improvements to go free. He would also make the coal lessees work the leases or abandon them. He would encourage mining in a legitimate way, and endeavour to get Groymouth harbour works completed according to Coode’s plans. He told a deputation in the afternoon at Ahaura that Government might aid private enterprise, but would not construct water-races. He opposed accepting the proposal of the Midland Railway Company to be placed in control of the Bruuner and Grey-Hokitikrs lines. (from our own correspondent.) Reefton, March 25. The Big River mine manager reports that the reef in the cross-cut has widened out to five feet, and that the stone shows gold freely all over.